Imad

Imad (also transliterated as Emad, Arabic: عماد‎, IPA: [ʕimaːd]) is a common Arabic male name and surname and means pillar or support.

Given name

• Emad Abdullah Ayasrah, Jordanian political scientist
• Imād ad-Dīn Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad Caliphate general
• Imad Abbas, Palestinian military commander
• Imad Baba, American soccer player
• Emad Hajjaj, Jordanian political cartoonist
• Emad al-Janabi, Iraqi blacksmith
• Imad Khalili, Swedish footballer
• Imad Kotbi, Moroccan radio presenter
• Emad Mohammed, Iraqi footballer
• Imad Rahman, Pakistani American fiction writer
• mohammed imaduddin, engineering pursuer

Surname

• Parvis Emad, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at DePaul University

Family origin

The Imad family is named for al-Amadiyyah, near Mosul in northern Iraq, and, like the Jumblatt Family, is thought to be of Kurdish origin.^[1]

Some unconfirmed sources alleged, that the roots of Family Imad ancestors are associated with those of Imad-Ad-Din Zengi (1087; † 1146), who was in turn the Atabeg of Mosul from 1127 until his death in 1146.

Imad as a family name also indicates descent from the originally Druze Feudal Family Al-Imad in the Chouf region of Mount Lebanon.

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